Durgesh Kumar
Dibrugarh
Summary
Proactive and versatile professional with a dedication to quickly adapting to new challenges. Strong problem-solving abilities and a proven track record of fostering strong relationships with clients and team members. Focused on supporting team success and achieving positive results.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Manager -Production and Operation
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (A Govt of India Enterprises)
Dibrugarh
10.2014 - Current
- Pre-commissioning, Commissioning, and operation of Dual Feed (C2+ and Naphtha) Ethylene Cracker Unit.
- Monitors plant performance and improvement by reviewing data through the system and compares against normal parameters to discern anomalies, trends, or areas requiring further investigation. In addition, it summarizes findings and provides recommendations to production specialists/operation supervisors for actions from the operation end.
- Minimizes production downtime by identifying process variations before they can cause major exceptions, with discretion to direct shift team as appropriate in the circumstances.
- Ensures all the activities carried out during the shift, such as safety issues/incidents and process upsets.
- Tracks production downtimes with its reasons and forward plan to avoid recurrence.
- Identifies and recommends cost reduction projects based on preliminary and final engineering evaluation, leads in the design and installation of such projects through MOC.
- Participates in and/or leads process safety review (HAZOP, PHA) sessions.
- Engages in engineer development and strives to improve group knowledge and performance. Participate in Panel operator, Supervisor, and production engineer PDP qualification program.
- Prepares clear and concise written reports, as requested by the manager.
- Prepares for turnaround planning pertaining to production.
- Leads in all the aspects of setting the production plan and continuous improvement.
- Monitors plant operating process conditions to ensure on-spec product quality.
- Lead and supervise the production team in the delivery of the short-term production plan by providing the guidelines for plant capacity utilization.
- Actions for quality deviations, deviations in production rates, problems/constraints in equipment.
- Participates in troubleshooting analysis in the plants and coordinates with process engineers to identify the root cause of the problem and areas that require technical changes in production plans.
- Complies with safety, health, environment, and security policies through implementation of Responsible Care requirements and environmental regulations.
- Reviews major production problems to determine the need for production engineering study.
- Managed a team of 10+ employees by providing guidance, setting goals and objectives, delegating tasks, and monitoring performance.
- Developed and implemented strategies to improve operational efficiency, reduce costs, and increase productivity.
- Ensured compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures across all business units.
- Implemented process improvements to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs.
Assistant Consultant
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board
08.2011 - 10.2014
- Company Overview: (Government of India)
- Capacity determination of Natural Gas Pipeline, Petroleum and Petroleum Product Pipeline as per
- Provision of the PNGRB Capacity Determination Regulation
- Development of Technical Regulations like Integrity Management System for NGPL and CGD
- Reviewing and Monitoring NGPL, CGD Networks and P&PL as per the provisions of their respective
- Authorization, T4S, Assess Code, IMS and ERDMP Regulations
- Handling legal issues related to Technical Standards, Monitoring
- Interacting and working with various stakeholders like Public Sector Units, Private Players, Non-
- Governmental Organizations and Consultants so as to maintain liaison and ensure Regulatory
- Compliance in the industry
- (Infrastructure Division)
Process Engineer
FLSmidth India Pvt. Limited
Chennai
01.2008 - 02.2009
- Selection of Core Equipments as per tender and consultant
- Process simulation, P & ID development of selected core equipment
- Providing heat and mass balance of the core equipments and PD sheets of total mass flow
- Making of complete proposal for green field and Brown field Projects
- Preparing engineering package like equipment designing, sizing, selection
Education
M.Tech - Petroleum Engineering
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
Gandhinagar01.2011
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University
U.P, India01.2007
Skills
- Pre-commissioning and Commissioning of Ethylene Cracker Unit
- Compressor operation
- Heat and Mass Balance
- DCS operation
- Optimization of Process Operation
- Plant Safety
- Emergency Handling
- Capacity determination of Pipelines
- Audits, Knowledge of different Regulations and Guidelines, Indian and International Standards (ie PNGRB,OISD, ISO, PESO, API, ASME) etc
- Report and Presentation Preparation
- Workplace Safety
- Operations Planning
- SAP
- Microsoft Office (Excel, Office, Powerpoint)
Accomplishments
- Presented Paper on "Alternative Development Strategy for Developing Tight sand Gas Reservoir" in
- SPE Sub-regional Meet Middle East section at PDPU.
- Got scholarship from World Petroleum Council and participated in 3rd WPC-Petrotech conference
- 2010 at New Delhi.
- Fourth position in National level seminar on Plastic waste management.
- First position in Regional and cluster level Kabbadi.
Training
- Technical training at IOCL Panipat Petrochemical Plant from BCPL.
- ECU Training by Lummus Corporation.
- Visited GAIL's HVJ-DVPL-GREP Natural Gas Pipeline, Compressor Station, LPG extraction plant and
- SV Station at Vijaypur.
- Project Training at IOGPT Mumbai (ONGC Institute).
- Vocational training in multidisciplinary department like (Subsurface, Drilling, production, surface
- Operation, Logging, well completion and cementing) for 5 weeks at ONGC Agartala (Tripura).
Languages
Hindi
First Language
English
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Timeline
Senior Manager -Production and Operation
Brahmaputra Cracker and Polymer Limited (A Govt of India Enterprises)
10.2014 - Current
Assistant Consultant
Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board
08.2011 - 10.2014
Process Engineer
FLSmidth India Pvt. Limited
01.2008 - 02.2009
M.Tech - Petroleum Engineering
Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University
B.Tech - Chemical Engineering
Uttar Pradesh Technical University
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